A Noted Leftist Criticizes Some Liberal Bloggers

(Fox News) - The power and influence of the left-wing blogosphere is alarming even liberal journalists. TIME Magazine columnist Joe Klein says bloggers are bullying liberal politicians to more extreme positions because of their power to set the debate and raise money.

Klein says he has been the recipient of what he calls "free-range lunacy" — even though he has written that President Bush will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in history.

Klein writes that he loves blogging — "But the smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn't move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed — especially people like me who often agree with the liberal position but sometimes disagree and are therefore considered traitorously unreliable."